Unless you're missing your thumbs, this is ridiculous.
Second thought, even without thumbs.....ridiculous.
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| Author: | cruvon [ Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
Hi, just wondering if anyone here uses a mechanical watch winder for their mechanical Breitlings and if so which one. There are plenty of nice automatic watch winders which are very useful for automatic watches but not absolutely necessary, surely mechanical watch winders would be even more useful for watches like the vintage Navitimer, anyone? A good example of one is here http://orbita.com/the-collection/programmable/sempre-1/ http://orbita.com/the-collection/programmable/sempre-2/ |
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| Author: | Bill in Sacramento [ Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Really? |
Absurd in the extreme. |
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| Author: | Dracha [ Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
cruvon wrote: surely mechanical watch winders would be even more useful for watches like the vintage Navitimer, anyone? Cruvon why do you think a watchwinder would be beneficial on a non-automatic watch ? the only thing it does is turn the watch, but as its not automatic nothing happens with/to the movement ? |
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| Author: | WatchFred [ Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
there may be SOME sense for these with complicated perpetual watches that are a pain to set, but on a Navi 806 without even a date the risks far outweigh the benefit of not just quickly setting the time after a short wind. Most of us give their manuals a full wind once a month, that is all it takes. |
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| Author: | mjfur [ Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
Unless you're missing your thumbs, this is ridiculous. Second thought, even without thumbs.....ridiculous. |
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| Author: | Roffensian [ Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
I've got about 10 million things to spend my money on before these get to the top of the list. I got some manual crown stem winders in a job lot of watchmaker tools once (tubes with a pusher at one end and spring loaded 'fingers' at the other to grip the crown, you then turn the tube to wind the watch) and I didn't like those either. Fingers work better and are a lot cheaper. |
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| Author: | Supermoto [ Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
Question chaps, as I am not intending to wear my vintage 806 day to day, am I right in thinking I should wind it up about once/month to keep things ticking over? (see what I did there  , damn I've still got it)
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| Author: | WatchFred [ Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
Supermoto wrote: Question chaps, as I am not intending to wear my vintage 806 day to day, am I right in thinking I should wind it up about once/month to keep things ticking over? (see what I did there , damn I've still got it)as I wrote I try to wind my (relevant) manual watches approximately one full wind per month, although modern lubricants should actually make that unnecessary - but better safe ... |
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| Author: | jlee5050 [ Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
Plus to add the vintage Bs with the automatic movements particularly the caliber 11-15... You don't want to put extra stress by putting them on the winder... Parts are hard to come by... |
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| Author: | Roffensian [ Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
jlee5050 wrote: Plus to add the vintage Bs with the automatic movements particularly the caliber 11-15... You don't want to put extra stress by putting them on the winder... Parts are hard to come by... Yeah, but that wouldn't apply to these manual winders - same mechanical stress as using finger and thumb. |
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| Author: | cruvon [ Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
Well guys, guess my example of the Navitimer was not a good reason why would require one. As pointed out by some, the complicated watches with perpetual calendar/moonphase and/or other complications would be best served by this mechanical winder I guess. Just imagine having to set the moonphase,month, day, date etc. manually everytime the watch needed to be used and where automatics are better. I guess the beauty of this winder esp if one had a complicated watch is even if was left for a month without use it would still mechanically wind the watch using it's motors and be ready for use after a month having thr moonphase, day, date etc. perfect. |
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| Author: | Roffensian [ Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone use a mechanical winder for their Breitlings? |
Personally I've found the 30 seconds a day that it takes to manually wind works very well an my fingers have never over wound the watch, broken down or made too much noise in the middle of the night. They also work in a power outage and they cost considerably less than the $3,000 (yes, three thousand dollars) that the single one lists for. |
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